> 2. Ive been researching sustainable funding models for open source. Will the maintainers be blogging about the progress and results? Would be useful to learn about what they discover.

Well, just ask $50.000 from Mozilla for an "open source project" grant "like" Caddy got and you're settled for at least a year.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/06/22/mozilla-awards-3850...

i've been trying to come up with a license that captures enough of the freedoms of open source to protect the user while allowing for a non-zero cost. my license is below - it's not open source, but if you're willing to consider licenses that are liberal but not OS, i'd love to hear your comments

http://db4j.org/pupl/PUPL

Thanks for posting. Ill check it out. :)